JCW International Freight Ltd • Contrary to our news story on page 10 of the 7-13 March issue, Traffic Commissioner Michael...

by Karen Miles • Hundreds of beef hauliers are helplessly watching the collapse of their milliontonnes-a-year industry as they...

• The Vehicle Inspectorate will launch a new enforcement system on Monday (1 April) when it switches its performance targets...

GIVING UP THE eye with Continent NUMBERS GAME by Derren Hayes • Roads Minister Steven Norris is poised to change his mind on...

• The Government wants to extend wheel clamping of road tax evaders to cover the whole country, including the use of larger...

Inspectorate. In particular we've been irritated by the VI's obsession with performance targets based on numbers of vehicles...

by Derren Hayes • More than 100 drivers have lost their jobs at intermodal operator European Freight Logistics (EFL) after a...

• A row over the road haulage of radioactive oil is erupting as Welsh councils prepare to back a local MP's crusade to...

• Twenty-three Munro Transport drivers have been charged with hours, tachograph and record keeping offences following the joint...

• Hauliers running delivery trucks in towns could recoup up to half the cost of converting them to run on gas with a new...

by Lee 'Umber & Karen Miles • Aggregate hauliers in Derbyshire could be forced to buy new trucks following plans by the county...

A lorry driver was crushed to death under the wheels of a 17-tonne tipper when he disabled its antitheft device, an inquest...

• North Eastern Deputy Traffic Commissioner Mark Hinchliffe has revoked Skipton tipper operator W&G Taylor's licence and...

• A haulier who broke safety rules while carrying a hazardous chemical was fined £3,750 by magistrates at Bradford, West...

Ammonium nitrate (AN), one of Britain's commonest fertilisers, has been reclassified as an explosive in the aftermath of the...

or Milton Keynes-based rental outfit Dawsongroup will , ncentrate on developing trailer rentals as growing compe ion from...

• A Scots court has been told that an Ulster lorry driver was frequently asked to pick up illegal immigrants or drugs during...

by Derren Hayes • Plans to privatise the management of England's 6,000 miles of motorways and trunk roads are not likely to...

at their lowest for two years. Latest Confederation of British Industry (CBI) figures show manufacturer's orders are at their...

French government plans to bail out loss-making Brittany Ferries as illegal. Eurotunnel is complaining to the French over...

• Eddie Stobart has taken over the UK warehousing and distribution operation from Exel Logistics for medical product...

EXCLUSIVE by John Kendall • Caterpillar will launch its latest all-electronic engine range in the UK this year with new...

by Bryan Jarvis • Problems of delivering smaller unit loads with an artic can be overcome using Dutch trailer builder Pacton's...

• Drum Engineering has launched the Drum Sheet roll-back sheeting system for tippers. A choice of cover material includes one...

• In last week's Sleeper Cab Test, we omitted the key dimensions of ERF's EC Ol ympic cab. They are: Height of first step from...

• Hino has revised the front end of its Super F-Series eightleggers to give better ground clearance. Mainland importer Harris...

• Sheffield Cleansing Department has taken delivery of four Iveco Ford EuroTrakkers, the first to be fitted with 'LP' Ecomat...

• Citroen has released pictures of the Dispatch, its new sub one-tonne panel van. The Dispatch is sister to Fiat's Scudo and...

a short boom lift of 2.5m at 70cm, a near 14m outreach and mechanically extending to more than 18m. Model 102 options include...

• Mercedes-Benz will exhibit a rubber-suspended six-wheel tipper at this year's TipCon exhibition. The 2527B will be fitted...

Multicar hopes to convince UK customers that a versatile single multipurpose vehicle can take on all their tasks. • German...

• Peter and Shelly Martin, trading as Psm Haulage, of Shirenewton, Gwent, were given a serious warning at a Cardiff...

• Wakefield haulier Stephen Moore, trading as Steama Transport, has been cleared by Macclesfield Magistrates of aiding and...

• The attitude of Leicestershire County Council in making a written objection to the renewal of the licence held by J 0 Aucott...

• Humbersidebased Northern Straw Co has been cleared by Easingwold magistrates of using an overlength drawbar combination. The...

• Fines and costs totalling £4,920 were imposed on 19 drivers who worked for a firm of international hauliers based at Ruthin...

by Derren Hayes • Guildford Borough Council had its Operators Licence cut by four vehicles for two months after maintenance...

• Fuelsaver II is a maintenance-free device which, after independent testing at MIRA in association with the IRTE, has shown...

• In response to stories about a shortage of the new armoured tachograph cables needed to comply with the EC regulation...

• New from Delta Design is a frame guard system for the popular 500, 1,200 and 1,500mm light bars. Intended for use in harsh...

• Truckmaster Direct, the commercial silencer division of Timax Exhaust Systems, has implemented next-day deliveries nationwide...

• Recently opened by Engine Express is the Global Sourcing Centre specialising in the efficient and rapid supply of engine...

• 16-18 April: Environmental Technology Exhibition, Birmingham. 0181 910 7852. • 21 April: Sandbach Festival of Transport,...

• Warwickshire-based forklift truck manufacturer Lex Harvey has introduced a 24-hours-a-day national breakdown helpline. Any...

• European car distribution and logistics company Walon has introduced a credit card payment option for non-account customers....

• The M6 motorway between junction 25-32 (WiganBroughton) will benefit from lighting when the last stretch of four miles is...

• Express parcel carrier ANC has moved its central depot to premises at 32-34 Plume Street, Aston, Birmingham to cope with a...

London • A40 Hillingdon: Waterpipe work is being carried out on the Western Avenue Bridge slip roads until May. • A406 North...

between junctions 6 and 8/9 continue to cause lengthy peak time tailbacks until the end of March. • A36 Hampshire: Bridge...

• A377 Devon: Roadworks continue around Eggesford, between Exeter and Barnstaple, with temporary traffic lights around the...

• M6 Staffordshire: North and southbound entry sliproads closed at junction 11 while work is carried out on the A460 with...

of cedarwood worth a total of over £50,000 was stolen from the yard of Rhino Transport in West Horndon, Essex. Both the tractor...

Transport for the recovery of a 1983 York triaxle trailer that was stolen from a lay-by in Stourbridge, west Midlands between...

a trailer stolen from 21 Salisbury Hill View, Market Drayton late on Friday 15 March. The trailerID number A020598/Chassis...

D taying with truck racing and a somewhat more up-to-date announcement, we turn to Chris Hodge. The London dealer is also...

catchphrase we can all relate to, even vehicle thieves , is "Don't you just hate it when that happens?" These must have been...

eaders pondering over what to do at Easter once the eggs are open and the bunnies have hopped it, need look no further than...

artists on the back of wagons. Along with the "Also available in white" your correspondent was struck by one of the back of a I...

I D Ithough Bird's Eye View is not intended to be read with the same searing sense of urgency and shockhorror as CM's opening...

Tt has been drawn to our lnotice that licence officials are approaching HGV drivers to see if they have a portable TV licence...

rrhe law states that all 1 vehicles over 3.5 tonnes need an Operator's Licence. When I decided 27 years ago that I wanted my...

small new panel vans. But the class is far from dead: Seat's diesel-powered Inca van is the first of three new high cubes...

.. Hold your game card so that losition 1 is at the top right hand orner. !. Place your card on top of the grid ■ rinted here,...

he Accumulator Game is played in the ame way as the instant game, except hat whenever the Commercial Motor ymbol appears in any...

1. Telephone the Match & Win game claims line on 01254 683555 between 10am and 3.30pm on the Monday after publication. No...

T here's no place like home, especially if you're ill. And as international operators push ever eastward into places such as...

ADVICE ON HEALTH COVER ABROAD: MASTA (Medical Advisory Services for Travellers Abroad) operates a Travellers Healthline on 0891...

dealer and you're just as likely to be told to mind your language. Right now the 'L-word' generates a passionate reaction,...

comeback FAMILY HAULAGE BUSINESSES EXPECT BODY BLOWS, BUT THE UNEXPECTED DEATH OF THE PERSON WHO RAN IT AND BORE ITS NAME CAN...

Parking up a trailer is simple. You disconnect the red line and walk away safe in the knowledge that your semi won't move...

• A new breed of inspector will be policing the waste disposal industry from 1 April. Apart from having the usual legal and...

want to park them in spaces which are too small, and drive them through gaps which are too narrow. How else do you explain why...

6 welcome the challenge set by Ms I Steele from Andover regarding the "appalling standard of lorry driving in Britain" (CM 29...